The Ultimate WR Rankings for 2026 Fantasy Football

**Josh Norris** (0:00)
Final wide receiver rankings are here of the Fantasy Draft season. And I actually think that this position is the most intriguing one when it comes to strategy corner.
We all love starting with two running backs, and so who are the names in round four or round six or seven and eight that you need to target? And then conversely, what if you started to wide receivers?
How many of these can you punt until it gets back into the sweet spot? And how do you mix in running backs on top of it all? We discuss it. We discuss it here on this episode, along with ranking our top 50 overall players at the position. Stay tuned for this episode of Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh and Hayden. I want all of you to take a moment, close your eyes and think of the best sporting event that you've ever attended. That instead of just sitting on your couch watching on television, you actually went to the game. For me, I was in college. Steph Curry Davidson was playing the NCAA tournament against Georgetown in Raleigh. It was like Patrick Ewing Jr. All these like 6'11 guys versus Steph Curry and these 6'7 dudes. And I was like, I have to go see this. I have to go see the guy that is launching shots from half court, even if they have no chance to win. And guess what? They won. And it was so much better because I was actually there versus sitting at home. And you can be there in the action by using game time. College football is coming up NFL preseason to watch your favorite rookies. It's all available here on game time. And it's not just that. Like I am scrolling to see what is available this weekend in my area.
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**Hayden Winks** (2:27)
Big, big episode. I was looking at the Yahoo default rankings versus our current rankings. And I think the best values are the wide receiver fours, wide receiver five. Some of the rookies that you're talking about, Matthew Golden may come up on the show.
And I think that you only need one or two of these top guys. And then I've been hammering that section because I think those are the most mispriced players over on Yahoo. So I'm trying to do that little yin and yang, but that means we do have to hit on these top couple names here.

**Josh Norris** (2:56)
We already did the running back version of this channel. Go and watch that after this video. But whenever we talk about dominating the default rankings, to me, that is most known and most apparent from like wide receiver 40 plus with a bunch of these names. And we just totally disagree with what the market has a bunch of those names. So stick around to the end because that might be the most actionable information of this entire episode. I will also add, you and I disagree on the placement of every single one of the top seven wide receivers. So while we combined all of these, we each are in different spots for each of these names. So let's kick things off.
And that begins with the first one. This is all you, Puka Nacua is your wide receiver one.

**Hayden Winks** (3:37)
Yeah, last year he had 3.4 more fantasy points per game than the wide receiver two overall, which was JSN. Puka Nacua is the NFL history leader in receiving yards per game. If Davante Adams falls off or just doesn't even fall off, but if the red zone work gets closer to even where it was like a 33% or 27% target share for Adams inside the red zone versus 17%, if that gets near even, it will not even be close. And I think that Puka Nacua has the very clear pathway of having that Cooper Cup level season where he can be a triple crown winner in this offense. The receptions and the receiving yards are already there. It just comes down to the touchdowns. And if I'm like betting on a situation where I'm looking for touchdowns and I can do that in the Rams offense, this is like to me, one of the highest ceiling wide receiver picks we've had in a very long time. I moved them up to second overall. You guys can take these on Robinson. I'm drafting Puka Nacua. I just checked my exposures. 21% exposure to Puka Nacua because I've been drafting him second, third, fourth overall. I'm getting as much as I can.